Hardcover. New York, Harper & Row., 1st , 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY VAN GIESON on title page.
Hardcover. New York, HarperCollins Canada / Fiction, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 246 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Previous owner's embossed stamping on front-fly leaf. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York, HarperCollins Canada / Fiction, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 246 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Previous owner's embossed stamping on front-fly leaf. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York, Dutton Children's Books, 1st, 1997, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, Hardcover. SIGNED BY PAUL O. ZELINSKY ON TITLE PAGE. Caldecott Winner for 1998. Acetate-protected dust jacket, gorgeous full page color illustrations. No sign of wear, dust jacket, covers and pages crisp, clean and unmarked; a beautiful book in excellent condition. First printing. no sticker.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 257 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on half-title page. Spotless and tight copy.
Hardcover. New York , Dial Press, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, color illustrations by Kellogg. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED WITH A SKETCH OF A SHARK on front fly leaf by Kellogg. The McTavishes, their seven children, and Granny McTavish take their old rattlebang of a car on a picnic up Mt. Fogg and have an exciting adventure.
Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 545 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Spotless and tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price clipped dust jacket.545 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Spotless and tight copy. While visiting her brother, who is researching the biochemical properties of snake venom, mute Zoe Carver attempts to discover the truth about the tragedy that claimed her voice.
Hardcover. US, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st US, 1997-04-07, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 246 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Light edgewear and damp-staining to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York , Random House , 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 180 pages, turquoise cloth with black and silver stamping. Bright unclipped dust jacket with light edgewear. INSCRIBED BY LURIE on front fly leaf .
Hardcover. New York, Little, Brown and Company, 1st, 2010, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, 394 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. In excellent condition. SIGNED IN RED PEN BY FUNKE on title page. Pages clean and bright. Binding tight. Spine straight. Black cover boards, gilt title on spine and design on front cover. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. In beautiful condition.
Hardcover. Briston RI, Herreshoff Marine Museum Press, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 126 pages, b&w illustrations. Memoir by one of the great American yacht & marine designers & builders. "This book is an insider's account of many years of work at the core of America's Cup contests". SIGNED BY HERRESHOFF on title page. Clean, in a bright dust jacket.
Hardcover. Somerville, MA, Candlewick, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE. 40 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. Color illustrations by Matt Tavares
Softcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, uncor. proof, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 179 pages. Softcover with paper wrappers. SIGNED ON TITLE PAGE. TIght copy.
Hardcover. New York , Harper & Row, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 64 pages, in a bright unclipped dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY ORR on title page. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Otherwise clean, very good.
Hardcover. New York, HarperCollins Publishers, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 242 pages. Hardcover. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR. Gilt title on spine. Color illustrations throughout. From the front flap: "In Red, Sammy tells the outrageous story of his tear through rock 'n' roll, detailing the backstage antics and nonstop touring hat have made his voice instantly recognizable. Beginning with his musical coming-of-age in blue-collar towns of California, Sammy traces his rough and determined rise to fame, working harder than anyone else out there and writing songs about the things he loved--fast cars, loud parties, and lots of good times."
Hardcover. NY, Doubleday & Company, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue boards with black cloth spine. 469 pages. INSCRIBED BY NIZER on half-title page. Business card of Ben Bodne, owner of the Algonquin Hotel, stapled to title page. Otherwise a clean, tight copy. No dust jacket.
Softcover. Paris, Arthaud, 1st, 1951, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 111 pages, illustrated with b&w and color gravure photos. SIGNED BY BOTH HERZOG AND ICHAC on front fly leaf. With a double-page map laid in. Softcover very good with a color illustrated dust jacket with light edgewear.
Hardcover. Princeton, N.J., Kingston Press, Incorporated, The, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, SIGNED BY AUTHOR. 227 pages. Light foxing to top and fore-edge. Minor wear to dust jacket; spine slightly faded. Else a very clean, tight copy.
Softcover. Ft., Texas Christian University, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 435 pages. INSCRIBED BY BONAZZI on the title page. This authorized biography by Robert Bonazzi, is based on John Howard Griffin's Journals from 1950-1980. Griffin was blinded in the South Seas during WWII, but regained sight in 1957, after which he wrote the classic Black Like Me. Bonazzi follows Griffin year by year after 1961, when Griffin toured the globe as a lecturer on human rights.
Hardcover. New York, John Day , 1st, 1941, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover, 339 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on front preliminary page, with illustrations. Dust jacket edge wear and tear, inch chunk missing from top edge, price clipped. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf, otherwise, clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, NY, Scribner, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 220 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Very clean and tight.
Hardcover. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on the title page. What motivates us to reread literary works? How is our pleasure, interpretation, involvement, and evaluation different when we read a literary work and when we reread it? This fascinating book by Matei Calinescu is the first to focus on the implications of rereading for critical understanding. Drawing on literary theory, cultural anthropology, psychology, philosophy, and previous theories of reading, Calinescu describes the dynamics of rereading and explores the sometimes complementary, sometimes sharply conflicting relationships between reading and rereading. Calinescu analyzes fictional works by Borges, Nabokov, Proust, Robbe-Grillet, and Henry James, among others, explaining how reading texts is related both to symbolic play or make-believe and to games with rules. He reviews the history of reading in modern times, discussing, for example, how the Reformation led to rereadings of Scripture and how the proliferation of books during the Enlightenment led to a shift from "intensive reading" to "extensive reading." Calinescu looks at the distinctions between reading and rereading from the perspectives of the age, situation, and gender of the individual reader. He discusses the problems raised by secret or oblique languages and codes - devised to evade censors, communicate with a select audience of "secret sharers," or play games of hide-and-seek with the reader - and shows that they naturally lead to rereading a text. Calinescu argues persuasively that an understanding of rereading is useful in formulating both analytic strategies of practical criticism and a poetics of reading. Clean, bright copy.